Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Geoff was a general partner with IVP, a firm he joined in 1987. Yang emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, Clicker, Efficient Frontier, Excite, Machinima, MySpace and TiVo. His networking investments include Calix,Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, MMC Networks and Wellfleet.

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"It's my belief that almost every model has been tried," says Geoff Yang, founding partner at Redpoint Ventures. Yang encourages entrepreneurs and investors to look across industries, and throughout history, to find analogous models to understand how a new venture's approach might succeed or fail.